In other words, it’s the same old story we’ve seen with just about every carrier besides Sprint at this point: as the number of users on the network grows (and said user’s expectations), the network’s bandwidth limits just can’t keep up with the “Unlimited” promise.

This change also highlights one of the downsides of going with a month-to-month carrier: this change hits every Virgin Mobile Broadband2Go customer, regardless of how long they’ve been around. No contract, no being “grandfathered” into the deals you signed up for.

On the upside, it doesn’t look like Virgin Mobile plans to charge any overage fees if you do go over that 5 gigabyte allotment — they’ll just throttle your connection. It’ll still work… just considerably slower.

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OverviewVirgin Mobile is a brand used by several mobile phone service providers. Each Virgin Mobile provider acts as an independent entity, usually in a partnership between Richard Branson's Virgin Group and an existing phone company.
In the US Virgin Mobile uses Sprint's network.